Qualcomm's Launch Convergence Chipsets by June 2005

With the increasing spate of users staying connected with walk-through-wireless sets, Qualcomm is betting high on the flourishing mobile market with the launch of its convergent chipsets in June 2005. The proposed chipsets will have 7,000 serial ports, 400 MHz - 500 GHz microprocessors to support: six mega pixel camera, DVD player, 3D graphics, and it would be integrated with broadband connection to support up to 2.4 mega bits of data transfer per second.

The company claims that the new chipsets will help in extending usage time with its plethora of online games, push-to-talk facility, position-location services, and the like. 

According to Sanjay K Jha, executive VP and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, India is emerging as a high-end market place and it's doubtless that this would be one of the major markets for these chipsets. Avoiding answering the cost factor of the chipsets, Jha said that the chipsets would be significantly cheaper and also stressed that as volumes increase, cost would dwindle accordingly. 

San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., provider of CDMA digital wireless technology, is expecting a major growth in the Indian wireless sector with the total subscriber base expected to touch 150 million by 2007. With Reliance and Tata as the carriers of CDMA technology, the company is targeting to capture 50 percent of the mobile market by 2007-08 from the present share of 25 percent subscribers in the total mobile market in India.

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